Eurobubba
Still can’t believe he does all that crazy stuff for the International Monetary Fund. www.youtube.com/watch
TIL that “graft” is apparently UK slang for diligent effort. I was a bit surprised to read an admiring profile of a certain business consultant that attributed her success to “hard graft”.
Good insight from Bill Seitz’s Hack Your Life With a Private Wiki Notebook: the very few tasks in your Focus deserve time, energy, and attention. For most other tasks, if they can’t be avoided altogether, do the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Starting to think texting STOP to political text spam is up there with “unsubscribing” from email spam.
Drinking Turkish-style coffee is all about it sipping that last little bit of liquid without getting mud in your throat.
Thinking I might just hold off till next year to get a new iPhone so I can set up a new Apple ID in the EU and play around with alt app stores. (Can’t afford one right now before I leave Europe in a couple of weeks.)
Text untouched by human hands: “highbrow belongings” as synonym for “intellectual property”. Nice one, GT. arc.net/l/quote/p…
I swear overzealous “security” in macOS has caused way more disruptions in my workflows than actual malware ever has.
Until this week the Harris campaign has been no policy, just vibes, and maybe that’s exactly what the momentary zeitgeist demands. Still, and I’m pretty sure Kamala herself knows this, vibes are no way to govern, as we saw all too clearly during the Trump administration. Once Harris is elected, I just hope we can get the obviously long-overdue tasks like universal healthcare, ratifying the ERA, and rolling out renewable energy done quickly so we can finally move into the 21st century instead of endlessly refighting the battles of the 20th.
Why are there multiple English translations of Luhmann’s Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen available online, but it’s impossible to find the German original?
